LMHC, 20 years of experience
I have a Master's degree in clinical psychology, and am passionate about what I do. Helping clients reinvent, re signify and solve their own life problems is the best reward to my practice. I believe that the power of a good psychotherapy process lies in its ability to help my clients understand themselves better, address their emotional psychological challenges, and make meaningful changes in their lives. I also believe strongly in the transformative power of connection and communication, and know that psychotherapy is the key to evolve and learn new skills that may be hidden inside someone. I am simply a facilitator of my client's own awareness, their emotional healing, and their growth.
During our first session we will explore what brought you to therapy, what are your goals, as well as what you are willing to do to achieve them. We will also focus on building a positive and caring professional relationship, based on skills, care, knowledge, and high quality of care.my
My contributions to you are to have all of my specialized training and expertise at your disposition. My empathy and non-judgmental skills are also part of this journey, and my commitment will be to "see" and "hear" you. You can bet that at the end of our sessions you will know you've got personalized care, and my commitment to guide you during your treatment.
All modesty aside, if you are looking for a compassionate, empathic, and highly skilled and trained psychotherapist, you've got me. I have accumulated years of experience working in public and private mental health settings, and have the skills and training to walk with you in your journey to discover and improve your life. My own life experience exposed to different and diverse cultures gave me the skills to be non judgmental, supportive, understanding and skilled to help you solve problems and come to terms with it.
4 ratings with written reviews
May 28, 2025
I feel incredible welcome by Ms. Karina Chernacov. She's very nice and understanding.
May 12, 2025
She focuses in problem solving with intelligence.☺️
April 3, 2025
Karina is an amazing therapist who helps you find answers without telling you what to do. I'm grateful for her patient, consistent, gentle approach to therapy.
I use a psychodynamic approach to help clients explore and understand their emotions and patterns of behavior, and develop self awareness, insight and understand why they repeat patterns. It also helps clients process emotions, improve their relationships and promote long term changes. Additionally this approach looks at the whole person, considering emotional, cognitive and relational aspects of a client's life, providing a deeper understanding of their inner conflicts.
I became a certified trauma informed therapist to help clients impacted by trauma. This approach emphasizes the physical, psychological and emotional safety of clients. It helps with trust building, empowerment, understanding of trauma responses, and helps avoid re-traumatization, at the same time that it promotes a more holistic way to understand the whole person. It aims to help with resilience and improve coping skills, and bring long-term healing to those who were victims of trauma.
Being born in a different country, and speaking other languages gave me the ability to acknowlege abd respect the cultural, racial, ethnic and social differences of my clients.
CBT is widely used as well as it is very effective to help identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors. I use it with clients who need help changing maladaptive behaviors, who need help developing coping and problem solving skills, and also to address underlying negative core beliefs, which impact their day to day lives.